Harry Belafonte and a group of activists at the Florida capitol to protest the stand your ground law were denied food deliveries by state officials, sparking unrest among the group.

Belafonte joined the Dream Defenders in Tallahassee to call for the end of the stand your ground law, a controversial measure that allows for deadly force to be used in reaction to a perceived threat to life. It is the law cited when George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012.

The protesters want a special session of Florida’s legislature to repeal the law, and have taken to the capitol to protest in the wake of Zimmerman’s acquittal.

The Dream Defenders, made up mostly of college students, have been outside Governor Rick Scott’s office since thee days after the not guilty verdict. Their cause was bolstered this week when Harry Belafonte, the singer and activist, joined the cause.

But the protesters quickly grew angry when state officials denied after-hours delivery of food to the capitol, which many viewed as an attempt to starve them out.

State officials deny the charge, saying the protesters agreed to rules that no outsiders would be allowing in the building after 5 pm on Fridays.

“Our rules haven’t changed since the beginning of the protest,” said Gretl Plessinger, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Despite the food stoppage, protesters seemed to be invigorated by the addition of Harry Belafonte. On Saturday he called on Governor Scott to act on the law before the situation becomes “ungovernable.”

“At the moment all of this is governable, all of this is in a place where it can be debated and analyzed and discussed in a very peaceful, calm, productive way,” Belafonte said.

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Of all the many civic minded celebrities around, who show up. Harry Belafonte. an old black Jamaican malcontent, who HAS MADE MILLIONS IN OUR COUNTRY, AND HAS NEVER HAD A POSITIVE WORD TO SAY ABOUT AMERICA. TYPICAL ANTI WHITE, IGNORANT, IMMIGRANT, WITH NO SOCAIL REDEEMING VALUES. HARRY, TIME TO RETURN TO THAT BEAUTIFUL, RACIST COUNTRY OF YOUR BIRTH. YOU OVERSTAYED YOUR WELCOM.

Harry speaks the truth and had always been an activist for all the right causes
Maybe you need to ho back to your country also since your family came over on the ship also. People like you that think uou own this country that makes america a bad impression

And when did you become the Welcome Wagon for America? With the negative insight you display, maybe it's time you returned to your country. I see no social redeeming values in your mentality. In fact, it's people like you that make the country look bad with your judgmental arrogance. Ignorance? You thought it was a true power point and jumped up and got more of it then you needed. This country would be a different country if there were less people in it like you.

trayvon grab and smash him head—- that be why him now be dead. jZ him one stupid man, not unerstan him afri-kan. smash whitie head, him be fight back put him bullet to stop the attack. affirmative action not good for knee-bros, need to stop watchin them daytime tv shows. get a job and work and study–than the way to get the money.

Stevie wonder said he would not do any concerts in any state where stand your ground law was. Most all states have a form of that law in place. If he wasn’t a has-been already, he will be from the lack of work. O.J Simson has all but confessed to murder. We never heard from Harry or the wonder.